Whether it’s your first anniversary, your twentieth, or your fiftieth, it’s the perfect excuse to spoil your partner – if you need one that is!

Anniversaries are like any other milestone, a cause for celebration. Reaching an anniversary together shows that you both have put in the work to make your partnership run smoothly, even if it hasn’t always been smooth sailing.

They are also a prompt to pause and appreciate your partner and your relationship, something that can easily be pushed aside when work, kids, and general life get in the way.

Taking time to show your love and appreciation for your partner, and evaluate how you can work together to reach your next milestone, will often make your partnership feel even stronger.

They are also a great excuse to have some fun together, to send sweet messages of love, and to show gratitude for all the little and big things they do for you every day.

If you’ve got an anniversary coming up, plan ahead with one of these ideas…

Head to the scene of your first date

Whether your first date was at a trendy restaurant, local beach, cute café, or movie theatre; step back in time and recapture the feeling of first getting to know one another.

If your first date location doesn’t exist anymore, or you fell in love overseas (how romantic!), recreate it as best you can. Find somewhere with a similar feeling, or set up a ‘restaurant’ at home and cook what you had then.

First date didn’t go so well? Declare a redo and have a laugh about all the things that went wrong.

You could also choose to recreate the first you met or the first time you said “I love you”.

Plan a weekend away

Get away from it all and spend a whole weekend appreciating quality time together.

Pick somewhere you’ve both wanted to go and plan it out together, or take the reins and surprise your partner.

You can’t go past a cute bed and breakfast in wine country, or rent out a beach shack along the coast.

The road trip there can be a highlight in itself, stock up on snacks and play music you both enjoy.

Send them roses

It’s a classic move for a reason; a delivery of stunning roses screams romance! An anniversary is a special occasion, so why not treat them to something they wouldn’t send themselves?